Happy b’day Sam!
Not Uncle Sam, my cockerel Sam – hatched on this day in 2018. Making him kind of an oldie (my bantams live on average 3-5 years). Mo is three days older. The boys seem a lot more durable than the girls, though.
July 4th was never one of my favorite holidays. I mean, Stars ‘n’ Stripes forever and all that, but it’s always hot as hell on the 4th, and then add open fires and explosives? Take me to my fainting couch!
But happy Independence Day to all you 4th of July enjoyers!
Perhaps you can help us settle something. Uncle B and I have, our whole lives, believed the expression “salad days” meant happy days generally and referred to that brief season in summer and fall when fresh salad was available (pre-supermarket).
I’ve only recently read that it actually means your youth or heyday or glory days. And it was backed up with examples and Google searches.
What’s your notion? And if we got ite wrong, how did we manage that from 3,000 miles and two different education systems apart?
July 4, 2023 — 7:18 pm
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Happy St Patrick’s Day!
I didn’t think I had any Irish forebears at all, but during my free two weeks of Ancestry.com I did discover some of my people left from Irish ports. Who knows?
Also, I didn’t find any evidence my mother’s mother was French, as per legend, except for the French-sounding last name. I traced her line all the way back to a Texas home for imbeciles and decided that was enough genealogy for me.
Have a good weekend!
March 17, 2023 — 6:55 pm
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My jeans are tight
Happy Boxing Day! The turkey was splendid. The little popup is relatively new here, so they think it’s voodoo. I always double check with a meat thermometer anyway.
It’s a big bird, so we thought it would take four hours. It took two and a half, so we had to hustle the side dishes along, but it all worked out. I still feel urpy from my excesses.
I’d very much consider roast beast instead of turkey, but beef has got so expensive and it often, after all that, isn’t very good. We at least know this (very expensive) bird from a (somewhat local) farm is going to be top notch every year.
What’d you have and how much is left?
December 26, 2022 — 7:08 pm
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Here we go…
Last day of work today. I’m off for a couple of weeks. I can’t be more precise as I’ll have to go in briefly in the middle to check on the building. A glorified janitor, me.
I usually come up with a cheap Christmas gimmick to spare me even the desultory effort of coming up with a post every day, but I drew a blank.
I briefly considered putting a perishable item of food outside and taking its picture every day to post. You know, the Twelve Days of Deteriorating Baloney or something. I’m pretty sure if a fox didn’t eat it and the cat didn’t eat it and the seagulls didn’t eat it a chicken would.
So it’ll just have to be me and my low effort shitposting this year.
Adorable ferret stolen from Reddit.
December 20, 2022 — 7:43 pm
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Look what we’re getting for Thanksgiving
Oof! It is upon us.
Still, we’re poised to do the thing. You know…the thing. We eat our T’day as an evening meal, about 9:30, because – what the hell? It’s England and nobody knows what the traditions are. I make ’em up as I go.
Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone! Or had one, as the case may be.
November 24, 2022 — 5:49 pm
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Happy you-know-what
I saw this warty pumpkin and had to have it. It’s a variety known as knucklehead.
Mistake. The outer skin is like iron. I almost gave up on it.
If it looks like it was chewed into shape by a band of chipmunks on meth, that’s why. I basically chiselled holes in it. Stupid pumpkin.
Our clocks went back yesterday. This is my first day of work when it was dark by five. I’ve just checked the weather forecast and it’s rain every single day for the foreseeable.
Now, that’s some scary shit.
October 31, 2022 — 5:39 pm
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Pull my finger
Happy Columbus Day, everyone. Or as we usually observe it, the annual Argue with Lefties About Columbus Day, Day.
Indigenous Peoples Day, indeed. Indigenous peoples is such a lumpen, juiceless expression. Who would want to be one of them?
I know from living in Rhode Island that Columbus Day is very much seen as a celebration of Italian immigrants. Good luck getting those guys to back off their special day.
Oddly enough, in countries all over South America, it’s called some variant of Día de la Raza or “Day of the Race” – a celebration of Hispanics arriving in the New World. Our neighbors to the south are much less shy about their European heritage. Or were until recently, anyway.
Oh, yah, you betcha – in predominantly Scandihoovian communities, they celebrate it as Leif Erikson Day, because by golly he got here first.
I think this one is too complicated to cancel, y’all.
October 10, 2022 — 6:06 pm
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Happy Independence Day, ‘Mericans!
I’ll bet you all had the day off.
Brits have been nice about it, actually. Everyone’s wished me a happy Fourth. Somebody asked if we were going to have turkey tonight, which tickled me. Like the only thing Americans can think to do on our special holidays is eat turkey. I think that might be the same person who asked if we give each other Thanksgiving Day cards.
We’re having hamburgers and beer tonight. That’s as much America as I have the energy for today. Hope you’re having a great one!
July 4, 2022 — 7:11 pm
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Happy Solstice!
We’re going to light the fire bowl, sit in the garden with a bottle of English wine and be all pagan-y.
I know a lot of you live in Hot Places, so this may not resonate with you, but it’s cold here. It’s been cold all summer so far. We had fires right into June.
To the point I really worry we’re headed into global cooling territory.
This is not like Midsummer where I growed up.
On the other hand, it’s not been unusually cold in the Winter, either. No significant snow in years. It’s like it’s just damp and cold and miserable all year round.
Global Miserabling.
June 21, 2022 — 6:19 pm
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I’m not a very observant Nazi
Man, I can’t believe I forgot to wish you guys a happy Führer’s birthday yesterday.
I think it was the SPLC that first informed the world that conservatives observe Hitler’s b’day. If you do a search of SPLC and “Hitler’s birthday” you get a long list of white supremacist goings-on that they claim were timed to coincide with the big H’s big day. Jail uprisings and the like.
I honestly would have no idea what Hitler’s birthday was if they didn’t publicize it. Now I can’t forget it.
Well, except I forgot it yesterday. Perhaps on account of that other thing we observe on the 20th.
Dead Pool tomorrow! Be here! Or don’t! I’m not the boss of you.
April 21, 2022 — 7:01 pm
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